God of War 3, Killzone 2, Uncharted 2 at GDC '09

More anticipated games to be at 2009's Game Developer's Conference.

We reported that the sequel to an Xbox 360 classic, Mass Effect, would appear at GDC '09 and now the PlayStation has its fair share of sequels too.

Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will make an appearance, perhaps letting us in on how the team has achieved real-time graphics as impressive as the footage already released.

The talk given will explore Naughty Dog's state scripting system and how it's applied to real gameplay programming in their latest Uncharted instalment.

The PlayStation 3 debut of God of War will also appear at the San Francisco conference. Set to be an interesting exploration of the developer's usage of the PS3's SPU and how others can get in on the act, the listing describes the session;

"This talk will discuss systems like core rendering, file IO and collision. We will focus on simplicity and ease of use. Architectural tips for scaling and debugging will be covered as well as portability issues and compromises."

Killzone 2, which will already have been released, will feature in two talks. The first will describe the game's usage of the Cell's SPUs, which have been implemented for the game's AI, image- based post-processing (motion blur, depth of field, bloom) and other graphical algorithms.

The second session will look at Killzone 2's rendering, especially with regards to the lighting and shadowing techniques performed in the game's deferred shading engine.

It looks like Sony and their first party PlayStation 3 developers are hoping to impart their in-depth knowledge of the big black box and help other developers with their future game optimisation.

Find out more by visiting the GDC 2009 website.